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I think. It was completely surrounded with hedges, with a small pebble floor, bushes, shrubbery everywhere, paths, little umbrellas over the tables. It was big and very, very continental.

There was also Fleischman's at Coney Island. It was one of the loveliest places imaginable. Fleischman's was a de luxe garden restaurant at Coney Island. I don't know when that disappeared. I know it's not there any more, because the last time that somebody said they wanted to go to Coney Island, about ten or fifteen years ago, I said, “Let's go early, go right to Fleischman's and have dinner. We'll show the boardwalk to these people afterwards.” The friends I was with just roared and said, “Where have you been living? Fleischman's is no more.” It was a perfectly lovely place on Coney Island. It was not a hot dog stand, but a very good thing.

This place at Claremont was not a German restaurant garden, because they were always outdoors and this had a house, big porches and places in the garden of old Claremont. There were big arcades which were enclosed porches really. It was a lovely place, with wonderful food. It was a lovely place to go on a summer evening to spend the evening there. There was no musical entertainment or anything else. You conversed, looked at the view, had dinner with two, four





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